A Power of Attorney is a document giving authority to someone else to act on your behalf.

A Lasting Power of Attorney can be made to deal with your property and affairs, and a separate Lasting Power of Attorney to deal with welfare issues. These types of Powers of Attorney will continue even if you become mentally incapable of managing your own affairs.

A simple Power of Attorney can, however, still appoint someone else to act on your behalf, but will not continue should you become mentally incapable. This type of Power of Attorney will be extremely useful for people going abroad, where they may wish to appoint someone else to look after their affairs, or, alternatively, business people who wish to make sure that there is someone who would be able to deal with the business in the event of absence of physical capacity of the business owner.

Your Power of Attorney can appoint one or more people to act on your behalf.

For further details on Public Guardianship Office and Powers of Attorney, please contact one of our Lawyers.

Swayne Johnson Solicitors are proud to have three Lawyers within their team – Richard Chamberlain, Sarah Noton and Dilwyn Jones, who have been appointed by the Public Guardianship Office as Panel Deputies. This means they can take on Deputyships for clients where there is no suitable other person to act and our area extends from West Wales, across to East Wales, taking in Conwy, Gwynedd, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham areas.

Click on one of our Specialists below for more information:

Richard Chamberlain
Solicitor & Director

Sarah Noton
Solicitor & Director

Dilwyn Jones
Legal Executive

Judy Lewis
Associate Solicitor

Lynette Viney-Passig
Associate Solicitor

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